Toolkit

Toolkit Methodology

Pollutants release inventories are necessary to identify, characterize and quantify sources of these releases; set priorities; elaborate strategies and action plans to reduce these releases; and to evaluate effectiveness of these strategies by establishing release trends through inventory updates.

Release inventories should be:

Complete (no important source category should be omitted)

Transparent (use of particular activity data and emission factors should be clearly described, justified and referenced)

Reliable (best available scientifically sound information should be used)

Comparable between countries and

Consistent over time

The Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Releases of Dioxins, Furans and Other Unintentional POPs (Toolkit) provides a harmonized framework for elaboration of release inventories under the Stockholm Convention, fulfilling the above attributes.

The Toolkit

Toolkit for Identification and Quantification Releases of Dioxins, Furans and Other Unintentional POPs